Publisher's Synopsis
This text examines all the basics in providing perioperative care. It should serve to update both trainees and practitioners on the needs of the patient who becomes critically ill perioperatively, or the patient with the established severe pathology who requires surgical intervention or special treatment. The book is divided into three sections: part 1 covers basic ICU organization, patient assessment and general areas of critical care; the organ-specific chapters of part 2 cover neurologic, cardiovascular, pulmonary, hepatic, renal, haematologic and infectious disease assessment and therapy; and part 3 focuses on subspeciality critical care and the special problems encountered in critical care.
